A previously perfect show, but I'm ok with this. It hasn't gotten bad, but it's no longer incredible. I considered it one of the best comedy shows of all time, and right now Rick and Morty is stealing its thunder.

I just hope Reed brings Jon Benjamin to his next show (and casts him as something other than a lazy slub. Everything he's always done has been a lazy slub, and he's been one of the best voice actors as that lazy slub, but Archer is head and shoulders better than his other performances.)

It's impossible to stop what Google knows. You can block everything on your end, but you can't block things on their end. They can still put together who you are extremely easily.

These days, nearly everyone can. Instagram drives me insane with this. I don't connect it to any other apps, and I use a throwaway email for it, yet it still keeps suggesting HS people it can only be finding via Facebook. I didn't connect to my Facebook. I didn't use the same email. If it can still find it, whatever go for it, but what drives me nuts is it lies and says it's suggesting them based on what I've liked, but I keep my Instagram walled to a small group of individuals, none of whom know anyone I went to HS with.

These days, there is no privacy. None. You can lock your system down as much as you want, but other people don't have theirs locked down, and so much of the tracking is done on a server level. Hell, at this point we're nearing where Google and Microsoft can identify us as individuals based on our typing and mousing techniques.

fishingtime wrote on Mar 22, 2017, 18:55:meetings are a waste of everyone's time. if it takes you that long to get an idea across, you are the problem.

Beamer wrote on Mar 22, 2017, 15:54:If you're one person working on one person things, or something that's digestible parts, like many software consultants, sure, you can work remotely.

When you're in marketing, your days are probably 25%-90% meetings, depending on your level. If you're working from home, you aren't efficient. A few days a month, sure, so you can get away from those meetings, but in marketing you need to work with finance, with sales, with accounting, with strategy, with legal, etc. You cannot do that remotely.

If you're someone that works focused on one small thing, great. If you're someone responsible for, or in the chain responsible for, actually directing the company, it's awful.

Decisions that require multiple departments require a lot of meetings. Meetings to establish what you're trying to figure out, to review data, to convince people to dedicate resources to your cause.

Sorry, decisions take a lot of people and take time. If you're doing a task, no, but if you're running entire brands, yes.

If you're one person working on one person things, or something that's digestible parts, like many software consultants, sure, you can work remotely.

When you're in marketing, your days are probably 25%-90% meetings, depending on your level. If you're working from home, you aren't efficient. A few days a month, sure, so you can get away from those meetings, but in marketing you need to work with finance, with sales, with accounting, with strategy, with legal, etc. You cannot do that remotely.

If you're someone that works focused on one small thing, great. If you're someone responsible for, or in the chain responsible for, actually directing the company, it's awful.

There's no way spyware is why more desktops run Windows 7. More likely, no one updates desktop OSs unless they buy a new desktop (or the OS they have is horrifically bad.) Since desktops aren't rapidly aging, people just aren't replacing their hardware and therefore seeing little reason to move to Windows 10.

Anyway, OSs collect data. That's just what 2017 is. As mentioned, your phone does it, your tablet does it. If you sneeze Google and Facebook know. Sometimes it's for marketing purposes, often it's just to see what the hell you do with your device and where issues occur.

Most people don't care. There's no way it's responsible for more than a percentage or two of conversion.

grudgebearer wrote on Mar 22, 2017, 12:03:Microsoft probably has 250 lawyers working feverishly right now to find a way to crush Vulkan, or neuter it to the point of being useless before any more devs drop DX12 support.

Ozmodan wrote on Mar 21, 2017, 12:33:Is the Irish slave story fake news? They came over as indentured servants and were essentially slaves during their indentured period. There was also a high death rate among them too.

So you can sugarcoat the fact all you like, but it certainly was no cake walk for them.

Ozmodan wrote on Mar 21, 2017, 12:33:Is the Irish slave story fake news? They came over as indentured servants and were essentially slaves during their indentured period. There was also a high death rate among them too.

So you can sugarcoat the fact all you like, but it certainly was no cake walk for them.

There's been a huge war between some of these airlines and the American airlines. Delta and United have been threatening to sue Emirates over the new Newark to Athens leg it just opened last week. It's been a huge, huge deal, and the airlines have met with Trump over it several times.

Given that this makes no sense, people are speculating this is punishment for the airlines from these countries starting price wars on some of the profitable legs for the domestic airlines. A shame, I actually booked that Emirates flight. I've flown Emirates, and it's an infinitely nicer experience than the domestics, and was cheaper.

They worked for a dev that was outsourced to. If you know anything about development, or common sense, it's obvious she didn't have the final say in anything, and was only marginally involved. But, I mean, GG lacks dev experience and common sense, and all they saw was a woman they could blame, and one that fit their world view that she must have gotten the position due to sex.

You're an incredibly awful human being. Why was I the first to respond? Because everyone else responding to kxmode on similar topics has you on ignore.

I know I've been ultra busy with work and family but what the Hell is this all about?

It's another one of Kxmodes insane crusades and has nothing to do with the game. You can safely ignore it.

I really feel like, after he finally stopped posting about religion in every thread, he needed something new. Because every thread I open has him ranting about the same thing. It isn't contained to one thread, and no one else is starting it.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 19, 2017, 14:49:Good software engineering practices are in short supply however. If you're working for the in-house code shop for a company that is in some non-tech related industry, then chances are your software engineering practices consist of "Here's your deadline, regardless of technical feasibility or the time necessary to do it right: get something that (barely) works by then, and we'll fix any problems later (but later will never arrive). Then, as your codebase accumulates more and more problems, and gets more and more neglected, it will become harder and harder to make any forward progress, so in response we'll hire some barely competent contractors to 'help' you out, primarily by committing breaking changes to your production codebase and generally not knowing jack shit about computer science fundamentals or software engineering best practice."

Do ... do you need a hug?

Rofl, nah, that kind of engineering job is hopefully all in my past now. I actually start my new job with Google's New York office tomorrow morning. By all accounts, Google engineering actually knows what the fuck it's doing. My last job though...

You have a 3 block walk to work? I'm jealous. Also, there's so much damn food in that office, but seriously the worst elevators I've ever used, haha. Then again, nearly every office building I've worked in, even the newest and most modern in NYC, has horrible elevators at 9am, but man, the Google ones in Chelsea...

descender wrote on Mar 16, 2017, 11:42:I don't think too many people move to downtown Manhatten, one of the most expensive areas in the world to live... to work for a random "tech company". I sure hope he didn't do that...

I think you misunderstand the area he is moving to entirely. Odds are better that he is working for a Fortune500 company, probably a bank.

Actually, it looks like he's working for a small startup called "Google"

Beamer wrote on Mar 19, 2017, 22:06:Oh, you're one of those who I point to actual behavior and then just makes weird assumptions back. Show me where I've ever said anything positive about Amy Schumer.

What I don't understand about you fragile, angry men, is why you're singling out a facial animator when people keep posting to awful walking animations. Is it that you can't find a woman to blame those walking animations on? Even KotakuInAction is calling this a horrific, misogynist witchhunt. MA, when you're even further into the red pill than KiA...

Let me know when you're out there standing up and defending Jon Tron to boot. You catch the point yet, or do I need to spell it out for you?

I have no clue what your point is. JonTron made disgusting comments.

I also don't know why you're so angry at a woman who worked at a studio they outsourced to. I mean, she got singled out... because she's a woman! She doesn't work for Bioware, and the errors and issues seem to be coding ones (e.g., technical artists), and regardless, looking at the ME:A credits, at least a dozen people would have touched the work she did before consumers saw it.

But sure, let's keep saying it's her fault. I'm ignoring you. Every post by you is the same thing, always so angry at women.

Beamer wrote on Mar 19, 2017, 19:21:Likewise. You never get involved unless it's a woman or someone saying nice things about women.

Really? You seem pretty upset still. Maybe you should go cheer on Amy Schumer and complain that her dismal ratings are because of the "alt-right/sexism/racism/misogyny" instead of her just being shit and unable to accept that. After all, we wouldn't want to hold people to the same standards or anything. Much easier to engage in collectivist garbage, pat them on the back for things that they're born with and can't change.

Oh, you're one of those who I point to actual behavior and then just makes weird assumptions back. Show me where I've ever said anything positive about Amy Schumer.

What I don't understand about you fragile, angry men, is why you're singling out a facial animator when people keep posting to awful walking animations. Is it that you can't find a woman to blame those walking animations on? Even KotakuInAction is calling this a horrific, misogynist witchhunt. MA, when you're even further into the red pill than KiA...